Renaissance Medicine

Question 1

Who are the big 3 individuals kf renaissance?

Answer 1

Vesalius, Paré and Harvey

Question 2

Who invented the printing press?

Answer 2

Johannes Gutenberg

Question 3

How were renaissance artists important to medicine?

Answer 3

They drew detailed sketches of the human body

Question 4

How did Vesalius learn about human anatomy?

Answer 4

Dissection of executed criminals

Question 5

What was Vesalius’ book called?

Answer 5

On the fabric of the human body

Question 6

When was Vesalius’ book published?

Answer 6

1543

Question 7

What did Vesalius prove about the jaw that Galen got wrong?

Answer 7

It was one bone

Question 8

What did Vesalius prove about the sternum that Galen got wrong?

Answer 8

It was made of 3 bones

Question 9

How did Paré start in medicine?

Answer 9

Barber Surgeon

Question 10

What did Paré use on wounds instead of burning oil?

Answer 10

A mixture of egg yolk, turpentine and rose oil

Question 11

What did Paré use instead of a cautering iron to stop bleeding?

Answer 11

He used silk thread to tie the blood vessels, this was called ligatures and did not reduce the death rate

Question 12

What did Paré invent for soldiers missing limbs?

Answer 12

Paré created prosthetics made of wood for soldiers who were missing limbs

Question 13

What did Harvey discover?

Answer 13

Blood circulation

Question 14

How did Harvey disprove Galen?

Answer 14

He proved new blood wasn’t made in the liver

Question 15

How did Harvey build knowledge about the cardiovascular system?

Answer 15

He dissected animals

Question 16

What did Harvey discover about the heart?

Answer 16

He discovered that the heart pumps blood around the body

Question 17

How did Hunter get Gonorrhea and Syphilis?

Answer 17

He injected himself with pus from a Gonorrhea patient, without realising the patient also had Syphillis

Question 18

Who did Hunter train?

Answer 18

Edward Jenner

Question 19

What was the book that Hunter wrote on teeth called?

Answer 19

The Natural History of the Human Teeth

Question 20

Whst did Hunter do that caused people to not like him?

Answer 20

He paid graverobbers to steal bodies for him

Question 21

How did Jenner come up with the smallpox vaccine?

Answer 21

He realised that those who had had cowpox could not get smallpox

Question 22

How did Jenner test his theory on the vaccine?

Answer 22

He infected his gardeners 8 year old sone, Thomas Phibbs with cowpox and then smallpox

Question 23

3 reasons people didn’t like Jenner’s vaccine?

Answer 23

They believed it was unchristian, they didn’t trust science due to Hunter’s ethical issues and they didn’t want to put animal things inside them

Question 24

How many people died in London because of the Great Plague?

Answer 24

100,000

Question 25

How was the great plague dealt with?

Answer 25

They quarantined ships going into London, locked up the houses of the infected and painted red crosses on the doors

Question 26

How were the Black Death and Great Plague dealt with similarly?

Answer 26

Bloodletting and purging were widely used on both, miasma was still believed to be a cause as well as God

Question 27

How were the Black Death and Great Plague dealt with differently?

Answer 27

Quack doctors "treated" the Great Plague, the alignment of the planets wasn't believed to be a cause of the Great Plague and less people died in the Great Plague

Question 28

What were common treatments in Renaissance England?

Answer 28

Bloodletting and purging

Question 29

How were the hospitals funded?

Answer 29

Rich private donors

Question 30

Why would people go to a hospital over a physician?

Answer 30

Hospitals treated people for free

Question 31

What treatments did physicians sell?

Answer 31

Treatments based on the four humours

Question 32

Where were physicians trained?

Answer 32

University

Question 33

What would apothecaries sell?

Answer 33

Herbal remedies and medicines

Question 34

How were apothecaries trained?

Answer 34

Through apprenticeships working with experienced apothecaries

Question 35

What was a quack doctor?

Answer 35

An unqualified person selling medical "miracles"

Question 36

What was Vesalius' theory on blood?

Answer 36

That it contained valves to allow the blood to flow through the veins